Because D2 is less helpful. You set that tone. Your conclusion was 1 out of Kitsunelaine, Kalor, Kopite, Meatwad may be scum. (you only ruled out Fat). What do you expect in return? Scum may or may not have been on or off Mao.
Work with me here. You think I'm town. We need to get this sorted out today.
I'm trying, Gorlak. I've been trying but every time I come into the thread I get hit with questions about my role again, and it takes time to answer and I don't have the kind of time to play that I used to. Then everything I I do is handwaved or ignored. kitsunelaine for instance has ignored everything I've put out there about her proposed neutral theory and no one else has commented either. Why would they? It's easier to just write me off or wrap me up talking about my role. Meanwhile a significant chunk of the game has barely weighed in today.
I understand the urge to want to vote me out today. I fucked up yesterday. I get it. But - and I know this but you don't - killing me just ends that one thread and leaves you, at d4, back at what is essentially square one. It's as easy to vote for me today as it was for Maol yesterday so your vote data isn't worth much and after I'm dead you start tomorrow with no real clues or anything else that gets you closer to finding the mafia team.
If the handprint person IS some kind of arsonist, too, you're a step closer to a mass removal of players.
I believe this is why Maol tried to caution the thread about automatically going for me today. I believe Gorlak is doing it with the best of intentions; he's twisted up about what comes down, essentially, to me not playing this role the way he would have. I get that. It's fine. I think there's also a seed of doubt there because of d2. I get that, too, and I earned it. Fat4All's questions are a little different and I also think he's probably more likely to be town, but I do not feel as certain as I am about Gorlak. The others who are so willing to just immediately get rid of me I would watch and question. What else/where else have they engaged? Are they following the easiest paths? If you do vote me out today, these are at least some trails to follow tomorrow.
But I have truly tried to be as transparent and open as possible. My interest in this game is in finding mafia. That's it. I have no other agenda. I thought, after d1, that I needed a fix on Maol. I asked a question and I presented my results.
Tell me, what would you have done? You ask, in a bastard game, with a role PM that seems like a medium but isn't called a medium, if a player is scum - knowing that the one dead player at the moment, if going off reads, is one more likely to call that player town. You get not-town. What do you do?
Let me slow that down. When I asked the question about Maol,
turmoil was the only dead player. turmoil and Maol were somewhat aligned d1. turmoil was town so I asked if Maol was town. I got very formal investigative results: not aligned with the town.
Why would I
not think that's more likely to be Natiko than turmoil unless spec had spoilers and Maol was scum? Either way, it seemed to point to a scum Maol, but since it's a bastard game, I presented it as the check it seemed to be but with caveats. I answered every question about my role. I was not trying to be cagey. Some people didn't like that I opened with the information, but that's
always how I've played having information that I think will help solve.
I didn't set out to get Maol killed. I set out to get
information. Yes, I botched the presentation. I haven't been playing as much lately and I don't always think as hard about the implications of things unless I'm scum and I know I have to. But the intent was to offer the information I had to town, and that's what I did. I tried to answer questions. There's one thing I've held back and I swear I would not if I didn't think it would impact things. So I'll say again: if the consensus is to basically ignore my results (I'll keep asking if I live but really just out of curiosity) then I'm happy to reveal that last part. If I'm gonna die I'll reveal that last part and let y'all weigh it. Until then, I won't, because it potentially impacts play. I've been clear about that the whole time.
(Side note: I think now that my role exists to foster paranoia. I don't really see another use for it in this game.)
I know we're in a not great spot in terms of leads. But I am really not the answer here. Voting me out because you don't like how I played this doesn't get us closer to finding scum. If you
truly think I'm mafia here, then okay, sure, go ahead. But I honestly think if you look through what I'd have to do to be scum here and what purpose it would serve, you'll come to the conclusion that it's not helping solve.
I don't really know what else to say about this. I feel like I've been locked into spending time just answering questions because if I don't I get yelled at and accused of ignoring people. I would like to turn my attention to literally anything else, especially if I only have a day left in the game to work on solving. Y'all can vote me or not, however you like, but there's no gotcha here, there's no story, there's just what's happened. But I don't see the point of continuing to hammer on it with the same questions. It's not getting us anywhere.
Now I have a bunch of quotes in my bank and I'm going to address those.
